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Post by The Elf »

I'm clicking on the red box on the left, which always used to take me to the earliest unread post, but it seems to be flakey now. I'm not sure what the pattern is - sometimes it works and sometimes it takes me to the start of the thread.
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Post by Drew Stephenson »

For me, on Chrome (W10) it works most of the time now. On android sometimes it just takes me to the first post, sometimes it takes me to the top of the last page, the one thing it doesn't do is take me to the most recent unread post! ;)
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Post by Wonks »

Only occasionally works on Firefox on Windows.

Never on the Fire tablet silk browser.
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Looks like I'm not alone, then.

I'm on Firefox, Win 10.
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Post by Martin Walker »

Still very hit and miss for me too on Brave/Windows 7, but it does at least always send me to the most recent page.

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Post by S.Crow »

Usually fails to take me to the latest post across all my devices.
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Post by The Elf »

This is still happening. Occasionally it takes me to the last post, but more often it takes me to the top of the last page.
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Post by AlecSp »

Having been frustrated by this not working, I came and found this zombie thread.

I feel as if I remember a software upgrade in the last year or so. Hoped this might work better, but it appears not to. Am I right in thinking that it never/rarely works for everyone else?

Is there anything that can be done about it?
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Post by Kwackman »

AlecSp wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:41 pm Am I right in thinking that it never/rarely works for everyone else?

I get the same results as The Elf's in his post above, but it's not as bad as "never/rarely" - probably works properly more than half the time.
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I'd say it's about the same as Kwackman for me.
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Post by Wonks »

I've just accepted that it's never going to work like it used to unless the actual forum software developers finally fix the feature.
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Wonks wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:16 pm I've just accepted that it's never going to work like it used to unless the actual forum software developers finally fix the feature.

Pretty much my approach. I found other ways to work and I just don't use that feature at all any more.
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